Discipline Quotes

Society reaps what it sows in the way it nurtures its children, because stress sculpts the brain to exhibit several antisocial behaviors. Stress can set off a ripple of hormonal changes that permanently wire a child's brain to cope with a malevolent world. Through this chain of events, violence and abuse pass from generation to generation as well as from one society to the next. Many world leaders who have been disciplined through anger and cruelty go in to treat their own people abominably, or to bully other nations. As long as we continue to discipline children like this, we will continue to have terrible wars on both the family and the world stage. One very powerful study illustrates the point. Researchers tracked down Germans who, in World War II, risked their own lives by hiding a Jewish person in their house. When interviewed, the researchers found one common feature of all these people. They had all been socialized in ways that respected their personal dignity.

~ Margot Sunderland

We have probably all seen teachers who would pick a student up by the scruff of the neck for saying ‘Shit,’ but who would walk by without a word when overhearing that same student taunting a classmate, calling him a ‘fag.’ It is often easier not to intervene — even when there is a clear-cut victim. It’s out in the hall. It isn’t our business. It isn’t our problem.But our inactions, like our actions, define who we are and what are true values are.

~ Richard H. Eyster

Discipline yourself to be a disciple of great works and to do that excellently, you have to wave bye-bye to some things and then switch off your inner person not to go near them again!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Humankind’s amazing grace is the ability to choose right from wrong, and assume personal responsibility for our conduct. With the judicious exercise of composure and appliance of self-discipline, we exceed our humble origins and blossom into a final rendering of whatever type of person we aspire to become.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

Self discipline is the ability to make yourself do something you don’t necessarily want to do, to get a result you would really like to have.

~ Andy Andrews

Entrepreneur, the development of your daily discipline will determine then deliver your desired distinction.

~ Onyi Anyado

The only difference between where you are and where you want to be is the number of steps you haven't taken yet.

~ Hayley Solich

You can't achieve major goals with minimal work.

~ Rob Liano

Make a list of goals for every year, tick them off & reward yourself when you achieve each one. Will give much discipline in your life.

~ Ziad K. Abdelnour

I think the sense of family and family achievement, plus the discipline which I received there from that one-room school were really very helpful in what I did later on.

~ Alan Shepard

If you have control over yourself, you have no desire to control others.

~ Miya Yamanouchi

The discipline gave me a sense of achievement. Not least, fasting is a test of willpower and, whenever I felt my willpower weakening, I would tell myself that I could eat as much as I wanted after sunset. But then the strange thing was that after fasting all day long, I tended to feel full with just a small snack.

~ Kristiane Backer

The believer alone will be able to hear the call. It comes from beyond ourselves, beyond our society, beyond the climate of opinion and prejudice and rebellion and skepticism in which we live, and beyond our time and taste. It draws toward the center of all things, that still place of which T.S. Eliot wrote : Against the Word the unstilled world still whirledAbout the centre of the silent Word.

~ Elisabeth Elliot

To live out God’s plan for your life calls for you to discipline yourself…and your body. To push yourself. To deny yourself.

~ Elizabeth George

Confidence is a pencil best sharpened with paper.

~ Kale Burton

Why is discipline important? Discipline teaches us to operate by principle rather than desire. Saying no to our impulses (even the ones that are not inherently sinful) puts us in control of our appetites rather than vice versa. It deposes our lust and permits truth, virtue, and integrity to rule our minds instead.

~ John F. Macarthur Jr.

Living according to God's standards is an acquired taste.

~ Rosaria Champagne Butterfield

Desires to which we cling closely can easily prevent us from being what we ought to be and can be; and on the other hand, desires repeatedly mastered for the sake of present duty make us richer.Lack of desire is poverty.

~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Discipline is a symbol of caring to a child.He needs guidance.If there is love, there is no such thing as being too tough with a child. A parent must also not be afraid to hang himself. If you have never been hated by your child, you have never been a parent.

~ Bette Davis

It must take a lot of self-discipline,' she said.'Oh, I don't know. I don't have much.' He felt himself about to say again, and unable to resist saying, that 'Dumas, I think it was Dumas, some terrifically prolific Frenchman, said that writing novels is a simple matter - if you write one page a day, you'll write one novel a year, two pages a day, two novels a year, three pages, three novels, and so on. And how long does it take to cover a page with writing? Twenty minutes? An hour? So you see. Very easy really.''I don't know,' she said, laughing. 'I can't even bring myself to write a letter.''Oh, now that's hard.'(Novelty)

~ John Crowley

A hammer made of deadlines is the surest tool for crushing writer's block.

~ Ryan Lilly

It's always been important for writers to be disciplined but now even more so. In addition to the traditional displacement activities like cleaning the fridge or eating cake writers are faced with a plethora of online possibilities (some of which may be professionally worthwhile as well as interesting and fun). As a writer it's important to learn how to focus so you can do both as and when you need to.

~ Sara Sheridan

Exercise and proper eating habits are very important, since the Bible says that the body is God’s holy temple, but I don’t think that superbodies equate with committed Christian discipleship. Some of the greatest saints I’ve known have been those with physical infirmities.

~ Billy Graham

Let us always remember that Christ calls men and women not only to trust Him as Savior, but also to follow Him as Lord. That call to discipleship must be part of our message if we are to be faithful to Him.

~ Billy Graham

To be a disciple is to be committed to Jesus Christ as Savior and Lord and committed to following Him every day. To be a disciple is also to be disciplined in our bodies, minds, and souls.

~ Billy Graham

Our minds must be set always to seek the will of the Lord. Following the progressive discipline revealed through the Bible will result in a walk of obedience to God.

~ Billy Graham

God does not discipline us to subdue us but to condition us for a life of usefulness and blessedness. In His wisdom, He knows that an uncontrolled life is an unhappy life, so He puts reins on our wayward souls that they may be directed into the paths of righteousness.

~ Billy Graham

It is no accident that the words discipline and disciple resemble each other in the English language. The most common word in the Gospels for a Christian is disciple.

~ Billy Graham

Christ never told his disciples that they would get an Academy Award for their performances, but He did tell them to expect to have troubles.

~ Billy Graham

Jesus Christ spoke frankly to His disciples concerning the future . . .In unmistakable language He told them that discipleship means a life of self-denial, and the bearing of a cross.

~ Billy Graham

Many Christians want the benefits of their belief, but they hesitate at the cost of discipleship.

~ Billy Graham

To be a disciple of Jesus means to learn from Him, to follow Him. The cost may be high.

~ Billy Graham

We are commissioned to make disciples, to bring them into the same direct relationship with Christ as those who left their nets and their fishing boats to become “fishers of men.

~ Billy Graham

Endure every hardship as a discipline of grace.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Discipline is to present us before grace, it does not produce grace to make sense.

~ Richard J. Foster

Infants never learn to soothe themselves to sleep. They learn, abandoned in seclusion, that no matter the volume of their despondence, no matter the force of their tears, when they are alone and frightened, no-one will ever come to their rescue. Infants do not soothe themselves. They merely surrender. And it is caged in their cribs where the infants learn, in the face of their demons, to remain silent and submitting.

~ C. Sean Mcgee

The purpose of a spiritual discipline is to give us a way to stop the war, not by our force of will, but organically, through understanding an gradual training.

~ Jack Kornfield

A science is any discipline in which the fool of this generation can go beyond the point reached by the genius of the last generation.

~ Max Gluckman

Change does not surface when you are not ready to be the catalyst. Your reaction matters, not your inaction.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

He was too explosive for her to touch him so intimately. It would lead to the wrong things. And places he'd banned himself from. As her protector, he had to stay away from her. That was how it worked. This, he could not stray from. Not again. Even if it killed him.

~ Jennifer Lowery